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- From: svpillay@berlioz.crs4.it (Kanthan Pillay)
- Subject: Re: amd
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.115946.37483@crs4.it>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:59:46 GMT
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- I wrote:
- >>the IBM automounter now *mostly* supports direct mounts. (It does not work if
- >>the mount point is itself nfs mounted, which happens with our /usr
- >>clients.)
-
- Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
- >You are being to general I think.
-
- >>* If it's only the "direct" capability that you want, then the IBM
- >>automounter (after the above fixes) will be good enough. (Unless you
- >>want to do something really *stupid* like automount /usr/local on a
- >>/usr client. Why on earth would anyone want to do that?)
-
- >This probably is not working because your /usr is mounted readonly.
- >automount needs to be able to create a symlink in /usr called 'local'
- >and he can't since /usr is readonly.
-
- >You should be able to work around this with symlinks etc.
- >Create a symlink on the /usr server so that /usr/local points to
- >say '/tmp/userlocal' which is an automount directory, so you get
- >what you want.
- >
- >See?
-
- Curt, I appreciate the work you've done so far in getting automount to
- work. *But*, in my book, if it does not work on AIX as it does under
- SunOS, it's broken. SunOS dataless clients mount /usr readonly in the
- same way as IBM /usr clients do. My automount maps work correctly on the
- Sun.
-
- I don't *want* to have to work around problems. I expect the automounter
- to work under AIX *exactly* as it does on my other architectures (SunOS,
- IRIX, A/UX, and Ultrix). When you have 1 AIX machine to administer,
- workarounds are trivial. When you have 100 (and I do), they are a pain
- in the sphincter...
- Kanthan Pillay
- Unix Systems Administrator
- C R S 4
- Sardinia
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